As Keene writes, "It is a personal walk through our history of struggling from deep uncertainty to measured risk and then on to the wonderful ambiguity and doubt within our modern finance. Bonus: The Gods are against burying you with math."

First published in 1998, Bernstein's classic served as a prescient book just ahead of that summer's meltdown of Long-Term Capital Management, the hedge fund founded and operated on the idea that markets were rational and all price discrepancies could be arbitraged away.